Gan Long's life has left many stories for later generations, among which people love to tell his life story. First of all, where was Ganlong born?
Gan Long thinks that he was born in the Lama Temple. The Lama Temple, located in the northeast of Beijing, is a famous Lama Temple. In the Kangxi era, it was not called Yonghe Palace, but called Palace. It was the king when Yongzheng was a prince.
Qianlong has repeatedly indicated in the form of poetry that he was born in the Lama Temple. In a poem in the Chronicle of the Lama Temple, Qianlong wrote more clearly: "I am familiar with the road in the East Room of Zhaige, remembering my loved ones and thinking about my life." Here, Qianlong not only admitted that he was born in the Lama Temple, but also pointed out the specific place of birth, which is in the east wing of the Lama Temple.
However, when Emperor Qianlong was still in power, some people had different views on the birthplace of Emperor Qianlong. North Korean official Guan Shiming wrote 30 poems when he went to the summer resort. One of them is about the birthplace of Emperor Qianlong: "It feels sacred to go to the Lion Park every year." Guan Shiming has a small note at the back of this poem, which reads: "Lion Garden is the birthplace of Emperor Qianlong, so Qianlong often stays there for a few days on the anniversary of his death in yongzheng emperor."
Lion Garden is a garden outside chengde mountain resort, which is named after a mountain that looks like a lion behind it. Guan Shiming and other people in the ruling and opposition circles believe that this garden is the birthplace of Qianlong.
Probably in his later years, Qianlong heard the gossip about his birthplace. After he went to the Lama Temple to worship Buddha in the first month at the age of 72, he wrote a poem saying: "Shi Yu Kangxi Xin Mao was born in the palace." He said, I was born in this Lama Temple in Xin Mao, Kangxi.
When Qianlong was 79 years old, in the first month, he went to the Lama Temple to worship Buddha and wrote a seven-tone "Lama Temple Grand Ceremony". In his notes, he not only reiterated that he was indeed born in the Lama Temple where Kangxi lived for fifty years, but also lived there for 12 years.
In August of the first year of Jiaqing, Qianlong went to the summer resort for his birthday as the emperor's father. Jiaqing followed suit and wrote a poem to celebrate. At the back of the poem, he made such a note that Kangxi's father wrote the plaque of "Summer Resort" in Xinmao that year, and his father Gan Long was born in the villa that year. In the second year, Qianlong went to the summer resort for his birthday, and Jiaqing wrote a poem to celebrate his birthday, which made the birthplace of "Tai Shang Huang" more clear in the comments of the poem. He clearly wrote: The emperor's father was born in Xinmao's villa.
The poems and notes written by Jiaqing in these two times show that, in his view, it is certain that "Tai Shang Huang" was born in Jehol.
However, after more than ten years, Jiaqing gave up this view. It turned out that every emperor in the Qing Dynasty had to write records and sermons to his father after he ascended the throne.
In the 12th year of Jiaqing (A.D. 1807), Emperor Jiaqing ordered his courtiers to compile records of Qianlong and Hadith. When Jiaqing consulted, he found that these two serious literature classics both wrote the birthplace of "Tai Shang Huang" as the Lama Temple. He immediately ordered the editor to check it carefully.
At this time, Liu Feng, who was born in Hanlin, found out the poems written by Gan Long in those years, and made notes on the places where Gan Long said he was born in Yonghe Palace, and handed them over to Jiaqing for review. Facing black and white, Jiaqing began to feel the seriousness of the problem. Therefore, Jiaqing had to give up the lion garden theory and approved to write in the Historical Records Sunnah: "... in the fiftieth year of Kangxi, on August 13th, Xin Mao was born in Yu Yonghe Palace." The birthplace of Qianlong is clearly written as the Lama Temple.
In July of the 25th year of Jiaqing, Emperor Jiaqing went hunting outside the Great Wall, lived in a summer resort, and died suddenly the next day. In the testamentary edict written by the Minister of Military Affairs in the name of Jiaqing, it is said that the emperor's father Gan Long was born in Luanyang Palace, which is the summer resort, and I have no regrets about dying here today. After discovering this situation, the newly succeeded Daoguang Emperor immediately ordered Jiaqing's suicide note, which had been sent to Ryukyu, Vietnam, Myanmar and other vassal countries, to be taken back from the road at a rate of 600 miles per day. The original saying that Gan Long was born in the summer resort was rewritten as a portrait of Gan Long and hung in the summer resort.
In order to conclude that his grandfather Gan Longsheng was born in the Lama Temple in Beijing, Daoguang had to change all his father Jiaqing's poems that Gan Longsheng was born in the villa. Because Jiaqing's poems have long been popular all over the world, such a big revision has led to more and more darkness, which has led to more and more discussions among officials and people around the country about the birthplace of Qianlong.
As such a famous emperor, the birthplace of Qianlong is not clear, even his mother suspects it. The most interesting story is that there was an ugly maid-in-waiting in Jehol Palace who gave birth to Qianlong in a hut.
However, who is Ganlong's biological mother? Just look at the genealogy of the Qing dynasty, the records of the Qianlong period and the hadith, and the problem will be clear.
It is clearly recorded in the Manuscripts of "Jade Death" and "Life and Death Book" in the First Historical Archives of China that Gan Long's biological mother is Niu Zhilu. It is also recorded in Shi Lu and Hadith.
Gan Long is a dutiful son. He held a grand birthday party in Cining Palace for his mother's 60th birthday, and painted it as "a picture of Yan Xi in Cining Palace". He served his mother in Mount Tai three times, in Jiangnan four times, and went to the summer resort outside the Great Wall many times. Gan Long is smart, too. He made a golden pagoda out of more than 3,000 taels of gold, which was specially used to store the hair that fell when his mother combed her hair, so it was called a golden pagoda. Gan Long loves to write poems, and many of his poems praise the kindness of his biological mother Niu Zhilu.
Although it is clearly recorded in historical materials, Gan Long's biological mother is Niu Zhilu. But some people still insist on finding fault with it. For example, a scholar named Wang Kaiyun in Xiangtan, Changsha in the late Qing Dynasty suggested that although Gan Long's biological mother was Niu Zhilu, it was really related to the villa. Wang Kaiyun was Zeng Guofan's screen friend and a famous poet in the late Qing Dynasty.
Wang Kaiyun said in "Biography of Women in the Seventh Floor of Hunan": Niu Zhilu, Gan Long's biological mother, is from Chengde, her hometown, and she usually has no servants. At the age of thirteen, she went to Beijing to join a sorority and was chosen as a maid. Later, she gave birth to Gan Long.
The female draft system in Qing dynasty was very strict, and the security system in Qing palace was even stricter. How is it possible for a local woman in Chengde to blend in casually?
Before and after Gan Long was born, there was another saying: Gan Long was the son of Chen Gelao, a big salt merchant in Jianghai, Zhejiang.
Jianghai Ning County, Zhejiang Province is a small county near the sea, which belonged to Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty. According to legend, there was a salt merchant in Haining named Chen Shiguan, commonly known as Chen Gelao, who entered the DPRK as an official during the reign of Kangxi and had frequent contacts with Prince Yong. This year, it happened that Prince Yong and two old ladies gave birth to children respectively. On the same day of the same year, Prince Yong asked the Chen family to take their children into the palace to have a look. However, when the children were sent out again, the Chen family was dumbfounded, and their fat boy became a little girl. The fat man who entered the palace was the later emperor Qianlong.
The novelist Jin Yong is also from Haining, Zhejiang. His first martial arts novel, The Book of Swordsman's Enjoyment and Enemy, revolves around the mystery of Gan Long's life experience. Jin Yong vividly wrote in his novels: Chen Shiguan's child was carried into Qin Yong Palace, "I didn't know it was a son who was carried in and a daughter who was carried out. Chen Shiguan knew that the fourth prince had lost his bag, and he didn't dare to leak a word under the big horror. "
Folk even legend, after Qianlong ascended the throne, he visited his biological parents in Jiangnan six times. However, during his six southern tours, he actually lived in the old private garden four times. This is obviously to "pretend to be selfish" in order to visit his biological parents.
The so-called Chen Gelao, namely Chen Shiguan, served as a cabinet college student in Qianlong for six years (A.D. 174 1 year) and was dismissed because of mistakes in drafting imperial edicts. At that time, Qianlong called him incompetent and incompetent.
As for why I visited Jiangnan six times and Haining, Zhejiang four times, and lived in Chen's private garden every time? According to textual research, Ganlong's southern tour of Haining was mainly to inspect the huge Qiantang River seawall project.
Haining is a remote small county, and there is no place more suitable for the emperor to live than Chenjia Garden. Besides, Chen Jia Garden is actually only a few miles away from Chen Jia's residence. Gan Long lived in Chen Jia Garden four times, but he never summoned Chen Jia's children and grandchildren, let alone "visited his biological parents".
Tian Tuo, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, wrote a book called unofficial history's Foreign History in Qing Dynasty. The author further said in the book: Qianlong knew that he was not Manchu, so he often wore Hanfu in the palace and asked his minions around him if they looked like Han Chinese.
Gan Long does often wear Hanfu, and now there are many portraits of Gan Long wearing Hanfu in the Forbidden City. Maybe this is one of the reasons for the legend.